Dwight Eisenhower

The world needs strong leadership, and the United States must provide it.

I don't like people who are always complaining. If you don't like something, change it.

The only way to deal with communism is to stand firm and not give an inch.

I'm not a man who believes in wasting words. I get straight to the point.

The American people are essentially honest and decent. They just need good leadership.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.

Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. We kept the peace. People asked how it happened—by God, it didn't just happen, I'll tell you that.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

I have met the enemy, and he is us.